Picnic in the Park

Nothing too exciting to report this week and no moaning to do either, going to struggle to write much!
Saturday the highlight was going to a park near to Miyagase Lake for a picnic. We arrived late for lunch, it was as others were packing up to leave. It was just as well, they were making quite a racket! Once people had starting leaving it was nice and quite. We sat under a tree as we ate our lunch and then had a read.
By the way I'm reading a book by Kate Fox called "Watching the English". It is about the defining characteristics of English people and it is very interesting. Some of them you can probably guess and others not. One example, she did an experiment - purposely walking into people to find their response. In England 80% of people said sorry even though it was not their fault. In most other countries people ask if you are ok and in Japan the experiment was difficult because at the last minute a sixth sense meant they would almost always avoid you! In my experience they might miss you but you are more likely to be on a crash course in the first place - when Japanese walk up the stairs at work they never look up between each flight so normally have to take evasive action at the last milisecond.
Sunday again was not particularly note worthy - cleaning clothes and the appartment followed by another reading session in the local park.